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Going for the (book) prize

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Couple of prominent locals are nominees for the National Book Awards: T.C. Boyle in fiction for Drop City and Carol Muske-Dukes in poetry for Sparrow. Tim Rutten also has a good column in the L.A. Times Calendar section today (sub. required) on yesterday's Man Booker Prize, which went to Australian DBC Pierre for a first novel, Vernon God Little.


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